toggle between english and french (how?)

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-02-07 13:02, Peter <pmatulis at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Le Mercredi 7 F?vrier 2007 12:48, Giorgos Keramidas a ?crit :
> > Have a look at the keymaps for French in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps':
> >
> >   $ ( cd /usr/share/syscons/keymaps; ls -l *fr* )
> >   -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 9148 Feb  2 15:29 fr.dvorak.acc.kbd
> >   -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 7702 Feb  2 15:29 fr.dvorak.kbd
> >   -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 8613 Feb  2 15:29 fr.iso.acc.kbd
> >   -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 7659 Feb  2 15:29 fr.iso.kbd
> >   -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 8715 Feb  2 15:29 fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd
> >   -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 7825 Feb  2 15:29
> > swissfrench.cp850.kbd -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 8577 Feb  2 15:29
> > swissfrench.iso.acc.kbd -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 7766 Feb  2
> > 15:29 swissfrench.iso.kbd $
>
> Yes, I tried
>
> fr.iso.acc.kbd
> fr.iso.kbd
> fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd
>
> Maybe I need to inform FreeBSD about the layout of my keyboard.  All I
> get are beeps when I hit the special French accent keys.

This usually means that you are typing 8-bit (i.e. French) characters at
a shell prompt, but you have not set or configured any locale environment
yet, or you have the wrong locale environment.

If this is true, and you are hearing the beeps when typing at a shell
prompt, then please tell us which shell you are using and what you see
by typing:

    % locale